Lesson 1 mw

Summary: I will use this lesson to gage students' knowledge of the topic of genetics. I pass out a Learning Goals Inventory worksheet to each student and have them fill it out. This worksheet will list three of the learning goals for this unit. Students are to write any concepts or terms that they already know regarding the learning goal. This pre-assessment will give me an idea of what concepts I need to focus less or more on. I will allow students to dicuss their ideas and brainstorm quietly with their partners. After spending about 10 minutes on this worksheet, we will then dive into an inquiry activity that requires students to predict the results of Mendel's genetic pea plant crosses. I will briefly skim the pres-assessment worksheet while walking around the room guiding students' work. The inquiry activity should take about 30 minutes. We will discuss the conclusions students reached and then begin taking notes on the basic concepts and terms in Chapter 11 of their textbook, such as Mendel's work with pea plants and his results. I will end the class by relating the terms we took notes on to the Mendel Mystery inquiry activity.

Homework: Read pages 308-318 of your textbook. Generate ten questions based off of the material you just read about. At least five questions have to be in-depth (how or why) questions, and the other five can be basic definition or procedure questions. Write the questions on one sheet of paper and create an answer sheet on another piece of paper.

Objectives:
Students will interpret the results of Gregor Mendel and relate the results to the genetics terms we use today.